Live auction - Lot 815
[Theology - Antwerp]
Opera omnia [...]. [- Miscellanea sanctorum aliquot patrum graecorum et latinorum ante hac non edita [...]].
Mainz, B. Lipp for A. Hierat, 1604
Hammer price: €
400
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
2 parts in 1 vol., 4to: [28]-327, 260-[18] pp. (rare spotting, mostly marginal, some quires heavily browned).
19th-c. marbled vellum, spine with raised bands (spine sl. rubbed).
Rare collected edition of works by Gregorius the Miracle-Worker (c. 213-270), bishop of his native town Neocaesarea, who has been canonized in both the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Published and translated by G. Vossius Borghlonius (= Geeraard Vuskens, Borgloon c. 1547-1609 Liège), Latinist and Hellenist scholar and clergyman, who also put together the second part with the miscellaneous works of Greek Church Fathers. Neatly set parallel Greek-Latin text. Main title in red and black.
Ref. Hoffman II:191. - VD17 3:315984V.